2020 Eighth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1213
Date: July 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2226
Justia Opinion Summary: Dunbar, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), was awarded an Army Corps of Engineers ditch and tributary project in Arkansas. Dunbar then hired a subcontractor, Harding Enterprises, to work on the…
Date: July 9, 2020
Docket Number: 20-1404
Justia Opinion Summary: An August 14, 2019 subpoena duces tecum ordered the IDPS to appear before the court's grand jury and provide documents relating to the investigation of an ISP officer for misconduct or use of excessive force. IDPS…
Date: July 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3418
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of a petition for review of the Commissioner's denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income. The court…
Date: July 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-3023
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the district court did not err by imposing sentencing enhancements for…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2481
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm as a felon. The court held that defendant's ineffective assistance of…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2585
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Toyota in strict products liability, negligence, and breach of warranty for injuries she sustained in a single-vehicle roll over accident. Plaintiff alleged that her 1997 Toyota 4Runner was…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3545
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that defendant's contention that his three prior Minnesota robbery convictions did not qualify as violent…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1025
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of methamphetamine. The court rejected defendant's claim of evidentiary error in…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1478
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's denial of his motion to reopen removal proceedings and to deny his motion to remand. The court held that it lacked jurisdiction to review the vast…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1104
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under Title VII against Midwest after it allegedly withdrew his job offer after learning that he was gay. The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal based on Williamson v. A.G.…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1007
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of second degree murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Defendant's charges arose from a shooting on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1155
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case is whether a debtor must object to a proof of claim filed by the IRS by serving it on the Attorney General and the local United States Attorney? Or is it good enough to simply mail it directly to…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1910
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, the widow and executrix of her late husband's estate, filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), alleging a claim of medical malpractice on behalf of the estate and alleging individually a claim of…
Date: July 2, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3263
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff's in forma pauperis complaint as failing to state a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plaintiff is currently serving…
Date: July 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1524
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's adverse grant of summary judgment on plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims against the county, the sheriff, and two deputy sheriffs. The court held that Deputy Ford was…
Date: July 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1316
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Koss in an action brought by plaintiff, a former employee, alleging that Koss terminated her employment in retaliation for her complaints…
Date: July 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2166
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) alleging that the Committee wrongfully denied his disability claim under its Employees' Retirement Plan and breached its fiduciary duty by…
Date: July 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2374
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for aggravated sexual abuse. The court held that the trial judge did not plainly err by not recusing himself sua sponte. Even if it considered defendant's recusal…
Date: June 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1398
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the railroad under the Missouri Human Rights Act (MHRA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), alleging that the railroad discriminated against her on the basis of her gender and her…
Date: June 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1004
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to UPS in an action brought by plaintiff for retaliation and discrimination under 42 U.S.C. 1981. The court held that plaintiff's retaliation…
Date: June 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1573
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims against defendants under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and state law, stemming from plaintiff's acquittal of a first degree murder charge. Plaintiff was a…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3327, 18-3328, 18-3558
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed Defendants Burke, Ibrahim, and Kidd's convictions of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support the convictions; the district…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3351
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the BIA's final order of removal, rejecting petitioner's claim under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) for deferral of his removal to Somalia. In this case, the BIA concluded that the IJ's…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3419, 18-3434
Justia Opinion Summary: Over 25,000 life insurance policyholders filed a class action, alleging that State Farm impermissibly included non-listed factors in calculating Cost of Insurance (COI) fees assessed on life insurance policies. After the…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3422, 18-3451, 18-3452
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs each brought an action asserting that the ALJ who denied their application for benefits was not properly appointed in accordance with the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. The Eighth Circuit held that…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1213, 19-1214
Justia Opinion Summary: The Sheriff's Office appealed the district court's denial of qualified immunity on First Amendment wrongful-discharge claims brought by former Deputy Sheriffs Timothy Bruce and Robert Curtis. Bruce and Curtis's…
Date: June 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1259
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition for habeas relief challenging petitioner's three Iowa methamphetamine-related convictions. The court held that petitioner failed to meet his burden of…
Date: June 25, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3363
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for illegal reentry after removal. Defendant makes a collateral attack on his 2008 removal, arguing that failure to provide him a Spanish interpretation of his Notice of…
Date: June 25, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1207
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator filed a qui tam action against Trinity, alleging that Trinity violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by knowingly presenting a false or fraudulent claim to the government, making a false statement material to a…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1549
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of multiple drug and firearm offenses. In this case, a police detective received a reliable tip that defendant was selling crack cocaine in the Kansas City area and that…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2440
Justia Opinion Summary: On appeal, defendant argued for the first time that the district court failed to inquire about his past convictions, claiming prejudice because, by his interpretation of the First Step Act of 2018, he has only one…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2780
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the district court did not clearly err by applying a four-level sentencing…
Date: June 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-3187
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition to reduce defendant's sentence under the First Step Act of 2018. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to…
Date: June 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1285
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit granted a petition for review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's finding that petitioner is removable under section 237(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) for having been…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1782
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for sentencing relief under the First Step Act of 2018. In resolving the matter, the district court did not have the benefit of the United…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2192
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of qualified immunity and statutory immunity to a police trooper in an action alleging excessive force under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and assault and battery under state law.…
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3167
Justia Opinion Summary: Inline filed suit against its competitor, Graphic, alleging antitrust and tortious interference claims related to the susceptor-packaging market. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary…
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2503
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction, holding that the district court did not err in finding that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that…
Date: June 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2498
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a sentencing reduction to defendant under the First Step Act. Unlike the factual scenario in U.S. v. McDonald, 944 F.3d 769, 771 (8th Cir. 2019), the district…
Date: June 15, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-3284, 17-3287
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit granted defendants' petition for rehearing en banc of the panel's qualified immunity ruling. In this case, plaintiffs filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against the City, the County, and officials, alleging…
Date: June 12, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3582
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of movant's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. 2255 based on the alleged ineffective assistance of counsel. Movant was sentenced after he pleaded guilty…
Date: June 12, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1465
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. The court held that ample evidence showed that defendant knowingly distributed child pornography and the…
Date: June 12, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1619
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for making a false material declaration before a jury. The court held that the district court properly excluded evidence of defendant's duress defense where…
Date: June 10, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2167
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit alleging that Falcon Jet violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act when it failed to pay team leaders and production liaisons not less than one and one-half times their…
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1375
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for four counts of sexual abuse, eight counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, and three counts of abusive sexual contact for abusing four different…
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1578
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a Satanist, filed suit challenging a Missouri law requiring her to certify that she has had a chance to review certain information before having an abortion. Plaintiff alleged that Missouri's informed-consent…
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2729
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed defendant's conviction for escaping from custody after he arrived two days late at a halfway house following a blizzard. The court held that the evidence was insufficient to show he willfully…
Date: June 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1423
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued on appeal that his possession of a firearm in June 2018 did not render him ineligible for the "safety valve" on his drug offense from April 2018. The court noted that even aside from 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(2)…
Date: June 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1636
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm as a person previously convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The court…
Date: June 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1993
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for one count of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and some amount of hydromorphone and oxycodone. The court held that the evidence…
Date: June 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2068
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that defendant's plea was neither knowing nor intelligent because he did not have real notice of the true…
Date: June 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2233
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging a claim for unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court granted the officer qualified and…
Date: June 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1439
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's reduction of defendant's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2). The court held that there is no constitutionally protected liberty interest in a discretionary sentence…
Date: June 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2031
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's reduction of defendant's sentence pursuant to the First Step Act. The court held that the district court accurately noted that the sentence sought to be reduced was a…
Date: June 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2513
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision to modify defendant's two conditions of supervised release imposed after he was convicted in 2003 of producing, transporting, and reproducing child pornography.…
Date: June 5, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-3362, 19-3520
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted in 2003 of producing, transporting, and reproducing child pornography and sentenced to 235 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. After defendant violated three conditions…
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1160
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for two counts of assaulting an intimate partner by strangling, one count of assault with a dangerous weapon, and one count of domestic assault by an…
Date: June 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1912
Justia Opinion Summary: In this action brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Police Defendants, a probation officer, various Board Defendants, and the City.…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1130
Justia Opinion Summary: The Ritchie entities filed suit seeking to recover millions of dollars they loaned Tom Petters, a convicted fraudster, and two of his companies. The Ritchie entities alleged that defendants helped conceal the fraud so…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3009
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to plaintiff's former employer, Con-E-Co, on plaintiff's sex discrimination claim, her sexual harassment claim, and her retaliation claims under…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3285
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's order affirming the ALJ's denial of plaintiff's application for disability benefits. The court held that the ALJ's error in failing to provide good reason for giving…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3630
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of drug trafficking and firearms offenses. The court held that the district court's jury instructions adequately covered the substance of defendant's proposed…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1269, 19-1336
Justia Opinion Summary: A student and her parents filed suit against the Minnesota Department of Education, alleging that the school district's failure to classify the student as disabled denied her the right to a free appropriate public…
Date: June 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1768
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against several prison officials in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. 1983, challenging a disciplinary adjudication, conditions of confinement, adequacy of medical treatment, and alleged…
Date: June 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1366
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant's prior Arkansas convictions for possession of child pornography qualified as prior convictions under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(1). The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to…
Date: June 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1517
Justia Opinion Summary: After apprentice electrician Timothy Sky was seriously burned by an arc flash while connecting wires from a new electrical panel at the ADM corn processing plant, Jacobs was cited for a single serious violation of 29…
Date: June 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3555
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and six related gun and money laundering counts. The court held that the inventory search of defendant's…
Date: June 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-3618
Justia Opinion Summary: After the district court granted defendant's motion to stay the execution, the execution date passed, and the government appealed. Defendant argued that the government's appeal is moot because the execution date has…
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3186
Justia Opinion Summary: After movant filed a putative class action against SquareTrade, plaintiff filed a similar suit. Movant moved to intervene in plaintiff's suit, plaintiff and SquareTrade then reached a proposed class settlement, and the…
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1101
Justia Opinion Summary: After Map Kong was fatally shot by police in Burnsville, Minnesota, plaintiff filed suit against the city and the officers under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and state law. The district court denied defendants' motion for summary…
Date: May 29, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1153, 19-1172, 19-1177, 19-1344, 19-1345
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed five defendants' sentences imposed after they each pleaded guilty to charges related to their involvement in a prostitution and sex trafficking conspiracy. The court held that the district…
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1347
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the BIA's dismissal of petitioner's appeal of the IJ's finding that his asylum application was time-barred and denial of withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture…
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1399
Justia Opinion Summary: After an officer shot and killed Roy Lee Richards, Jr., his estate filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of the…
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1750, 19-1969
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 2018 from 55 years to 40 years in prison. The court held that the Act applies to offenses, not conduct.…
Date: May 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2145
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and sentenced to 240 months in prison. The district court considered the sentence appropriate and subsequently denied defendant's…
Date: May 27, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2633, 18-2752
Justia Opinion Summary: CRST filed suit against TransAm, alleging that TransAm wrongfully recruited and hired several long-haul truck drivers who were under contract with CRST. The district court granted TransAm's motion for summary judgment…
Date: May 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1142
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her former employer, Allina, for race and national origin discrimination as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Number: 16-3953
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit held that voluntary manslaughter under 18 U.S.C. 1112 qualifies as a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A) because it has an element of force against the person of another.…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2638, 18-2715
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied petitions for review of the BIA's decision affirming petitioners' orders of removal, holding that petitioners' arguments are foreclosed by circuit precedent. Petitioners, lawful permanent…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-2287, 19-3328
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of cocaine. The court also affirmed defendant's…
Date: May 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2956
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. The court held that the prosecutor's comments at sentencing did not breach the plea agreement…
Date: May 22, 2020
Docket Number: 17-1833
Justia Opinion Summary: After the district court granted petitioner partial habeas relief, both petitioner and the state appealed. The Eighth Circuit agreed with the district court that petitioner's guilt-and-penalty ineffective-assistance…
Date: May 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3345
Justia Opinion Summary: Three retirement-plan participants field suit against WashU for breach of its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a…
Date: May 21, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1481, 19-1602
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Silverstar, alleging that it intentionally misrepresented the condition of the used Ferrari it sold him. A jury awarded plaintiff $20,201 in compensatory and incidental damages and $5.8…
Date: May 20, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2658
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in this trademark infringement case over the word mark "Lawn Managers." In this case, the licensing agreement was the result of a…
Date: May 19, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1419
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, his three children, and Stop Child Protection Services from Legally Kidnapping filed suit against the county, DCSS, nine county officials, and three officials. Plaintiffs' constitutional, federal, and state…
Date: May 18, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2185
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint alleging three defamation counts against defendants. The defamatory statements at issue stemmed from the parties' failed business…
Date: May 18, 2020
Docket Number: 20-1985
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought a petition for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254 and concurrently sought a stay of execution. The district court entered an order granting the motion for stay of execution on the basis that it…
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-3241
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a gun. The court held that defendant's sentence was substantively reasonable; the district court did not err by…
Date: May 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6040
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's orders granting the trustee's second motion to compromise controversy, denying an agreed motion to seal, and denying debtor's motion to seal. The orders…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3491
Justia Opinion Summary: Sysco Minnesota filed suit against Local 120 under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) for violating their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The Eighth Circuit held that Local 120 waived its…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1711
Justia Opinion Summary: After the United States Probation Office petitioned the district court for modification of defendant's sentence to add three special conditions of supervised release, he appealed the grant of the petition. The Eighth…
Date: May 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1878
Justia Opinion Summary: After an ATF agent shot and killed Myron Pollard during an undercover operation, Pollard's mother and personal representative of his estate filed suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)…
Date: May 12, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-2050, 19-2171
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of American Family in a declaratory judgment regarding American Family's duty to defend and indemnify Mid-American. American Family had…
Date: May 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1393
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Ozark in an action brought by plaintiff under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of…
Date: May 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2353
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to submitting false reimbursement claims for services and creating a materially false patient progress note. The court held that the…
Date: May 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2777
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The court held that there was more than enough evidence for defendant's probation officer and…
Date: May 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3011
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's determination that defendant committed two crimes involving moral turpitude. The court held that the BIA did not err in determining that petitioner's…
Date: May 6, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3242, 19-1767
Justia Opinion Summary: After Peabody was reorganized, three California municipalities filed suit against Peabody and more than thirty other energy companies for their alleged contributions to global warming. The bankruptcy court enjoined the…
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2915
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to petitioner based on his claim that the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial when it briefly closed the courtroom to…
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1081
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's restitution order and certain special conditions of defendant's supervised release imposed after he pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of a child. The court found no error…
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-1456, 19-1988
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the County on plaintiff's claim of interference with her rights under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and retaliation against her for…
Date: May 5, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1607
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the government did not violate the Speedy Trial Act, and defendant failed to offer any…
Date: May 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1392
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was removed from the Board of Trustees of Drake University, he filed suit alleging Title IX retaliation, disability retaliation, and breach of contract. Plaintiff's removal stemmed from conflicts of…
Date: May 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6039
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's determination that the interested parties were equitably estopped from asserting ownership of machinery and equipment in debtor's bankruptcy case. In this case, the…
Date: May 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3126
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of plaintiff's motion for a new trial in an action seeking damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and rejected his contention that the district court…
Date: May 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1176
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm as a previously convicted felon. The court held that, although the district court properly applied a…
Date: April 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1553
Justia Opinion Summary: SPP, a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), is authorized by the Commission to provide electric transmission services across a multi-state region. Pursuant to SPP's license-plate rate design, SPP is divided into…
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3071
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss after he pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin. The court held that the record supported the…
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3174, 18-2873
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254 to Tina Jimerson and John Brown, Jr., two Arkansas prisoners serving life sentences for murder and aggravated robbery.…
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3707
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against ISC, alleging that ISC transported plaintiff, a pretrial detainee subject to extradition, for eight continuous days across twelve states, with only momentary breaks for…
Date: April 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1266
Justia Opinion Summary: After a truck driver filed claims against his employer's insurer to recover for an injury he suffered when loading a truck, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the insurer. The Eighth Circuit…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2451, 18-2576
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision to alter the distribution of attorney's fees set forth in a contingency fee sharing agreement between two law firms in a products liability case. The court noted…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3408
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and cooperated with the government. The court held that there was no plain error at…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2121
Justia Opinion Summary: D&G filed an antitrust suit against C&S, on behalf of all grocery retailers, alleging that C&S agreed with another grocery wholesaler, SuperValu, not to compete for customers in certain geographical areas. The jury…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3165
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the district court did not err in determining that defendant was an armed career criminal based on his…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3723
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed judgments against DatabaseUSA for copyright infringement and Vinod Gupta for breach of contract. After Gupta founded Infogroup, he and the company entered a separation agreement. Then Gupta…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1543
Justia Opinion Summary: After C&W failed to remit employment taxes, the IRS assessed the balance owed against C&W's former's owner. C&W's former owner filed suit alleging that the IRS misallocated funds it had levied from C&W, leaving him…
Date: April 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2058
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of the school district's motion to dismiss in part and motion for summary judgment in an action brought under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 17-3578
Justia Opinion Summary: Wells Fargo, a U.S. corporation, entered into a structured trust advantaged repackaged securities transaction (STARS) with Barclays, a United Kingdom corporation. Wells Fargo asserts its purpose was to borrow money at a…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1430
Justia Opinion Summary: Based on a report by the burglary victim, Goffin’s uncle, Officer Ashcraft tried to arrest Goffin for burglary and stealing handguns, bullets, and prescription pain medication. Before the arrest, several witnesses told…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2674
Justia Opinion Summary: The National Credit Union Administration Board ("NCUAB"), the self-appointed conservator of Citizens Community Credit Union ("Citizens"), repudiated a letter of credit Citizens issued to Granite Re, Inc. Granite filed a…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3611
Justia Opinion Summary: Iowa inmate Napolean-Ahmed Mbonyunkiza was a practicing Muslim whose religious beliefs forbade consumption of pork or pork by-products. In 2017, he filed four separate grievances against the Newton Correctional Facility…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1426
Justia Opinion Summary: Marion Carter sued the Pulaski County Special School District for race discrimination under Arkansas state and federal laws. Carter taught at the Joe T. Robinson High School in the School District. She also coached the…
Date: April 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1854
Justia Opinion Summary: After Cody Franklin died in police custody, his father, as administrator of his estate, sued the police officers who struggled with Franklin the night he died, and against the municipalities who employed them. The elder…
Date: April 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1506
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's order affirming the IJ's denial of petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and protection under…
Date: April 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6038
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's order denying Murray's motion to enforce the order confirming debtors' third amended plan of reorganization and to enjoin parties from asserting claims…
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1477
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for unlawful use of an identification document and misuse of a social security number. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support defendant's convictions…
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 20-1791
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit granted a writ of mandamus in part and directed the district court to dissolve a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) enjoining the State from enforcing a COVID-19-related health directive against a…
Date: April 21, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2759
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for involuntary manslaughter after he struck and killed his nephew with his truck. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction, because a…
Date: April 21, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1140
Justia Opinion Summary: After Murphy Oil sold an oil refinery to Valero, a fire occurred on the property. Valero demanded indemnification from Murphy, and Murphy sought a defense from its general commercial liability insurer, Liberty Mutual.…
Date: April 20, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3341
Justia Opinion Summary: After the City hired Henderson to design and install a bio-solids building, panels on the building's roof were damaged during a windstorm. Henderson filed a claim with Travelers, asserting that Travelers was required to…
Date: April 20, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1131
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct petitioner's sentence. The court held that the district court did not err in denying an evidentiary…
Date: April 20, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1469
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the magistrate judge's grant of summary judgment in favor of law enforcement officers and the City, in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action brought by plaintiff after the death of her son. The court held…
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3528
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the facts underlying defendant's prior arrests were part of his history…
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3568
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress his responses to an ICE agent's two questions at the Treasurer's Office, because he was not in custody at the time of…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3648
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that Dr. Pepper retaliated against him for complaining about racial discrimination at the company. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Dr. Pepper,…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6042
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel dismissed debtor's Chapter 13 bankruptcy appeal, holding that it lacked jurisdiction. The panel held that debtor has not shown she is a person aggrieved by the bankruptcy court's order…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2640, 18-2763
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an inmate who had used Global's services, brought a putative class action alleging that Global's rates and fees were unjust and unreasonable under the Federal Communications Act (FCA) and that Global had…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3517
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for two counts of child pornography. The court held that the government met its specific-intent requirement by providing sufficient proof that one of defendant's…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1219
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for participating in a methamphetamine-distribution conspiracy. The court held that the district court correctly designated defendant as a career offender based on his…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1321
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for distribution, possession, and receipt of child pornography. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1341
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for illegal reentry into the United States. The court declined to reach the issue of whether there is a "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act because, even assuming…
Date: April 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1693
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for illegal reentry into the United States. The court rejected defendant's challenge to the indictment on Speedy Trial Act grounds, holding that the indictment was…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3403
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, health care providers and their patients, filed suit against Iowa's Department of Public Health and its Health Facilities Council, alleging that Iowa's Certificate of Need laws violate the Fourteenth…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1373
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Berkadia in an action brought by plaintiff, alleging that the employer terminated him in retaliation for actions protected by the…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1497
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of a firearm. The court held that the officers acted in their community caretaking function when they entered the home of…
Date: April 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1919
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for possession of a firearm. The court held that defendant was not denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel during a critical stage of the proceedings, because he…
Date: April 10, 2020
Docket Numbers: 17-3776, 18-2455, 19-1449
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for nine counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. The court held that the district court did not plainly err by finding that defendant's consent to search…
Date: April 10, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1831
Justia Opinion Summary: Investors who purchase Target Corporation stock filed suit against Target and its executives, alleging that Target misled investors about problems in its Canadian stores. Investors' claims stemmed from Target's efforts…
Date: April 10, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2172
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's order denying Napoli's quantum meruit request for attorney's fees. The court held that the district court did not fail to balance all factors and equities as required…
Date: April 9, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3502
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Westrock in state court after a stack of cardboard boxes fell out of a truck and caused him to fall to the ground, injuring his shoulder. After removal to federal court, plaintiff brought a…
Date: April 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1759
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. The court held that defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing a fair and just grounds for withdrawal…
Date: April 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1827
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from the search of his vehicle. The court held that the officers lawfully continued their investigation after…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2185
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated the district court's denial of defendant's 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to vacate his sentence on the ground that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations before trial.…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3170
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, money laundering, and two counts of conspiring to launder money. The court held that the evidence was…
Date: April 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3668
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The court held that…
Date: April 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2812
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied the petition for review of the BIA's decision denying petitioner's applications for asylum and withholding of removal. The court held that petitioner failed to establish a well-founded fear of…
Date: April 7, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3728
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The court held that the district court did not…
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1908
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to vacate his sentence under 18 U.S.C. 117 for the crime of domestic assault by a habitual offender in Indian country. The court held that…
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2810
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction; the…
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2990
Justia Opinion Summary: Safeway and its proprietor filed suit against DPB and its owner, alleging federal trademark infringement under the Lanham Act and deceptive trade practices under Minnesota state law. Safeway claimed that DPB infringed…
Date: April 6, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1616
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. The court held that, even if the district…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1314
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's finding that plaintiff failed to allege a claim that a state prosecutor retaliated against him for seeking unpaid overtime compensation. The court held that plaintiff…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1890
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence recovered during a traffic stop. The court held that the officer had reasonable suspicion based on several specific and…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2467
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims of racial discrimination and retaliation, disability discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, and breach of fiduciary duty. The court…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3557
Justia Opinion Summary: After debtors filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, the United States Trustee objected to the discharge in bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed the bankruptcy…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3596, 18-3600
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's entry of a $356,619.30 judgment in favor of the Estate of Joyce Rosamond Peterson against Defendants Bitters and Henry. Bitters, a financial advisor, advised Petersen to…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3618
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit granted in part and denied in part a petition for review of the BIA's decision reversing the IJ's grant of waiver of inadmissibility and deferral of removal to petitioner. After determining that the…
Date: April 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1890
Justia Opinion Summary: Top Rank and Middendorf are boxing promoters and parties to an Agreement and Release regarding a successful boxer's promotional rights. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2929, 18-3156
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed Defendants Labachyan and Johnson's convictions for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The court held that the district…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1001
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for making false statements to obtain Social Security benefits. The court held that there was sufficient evidence for a rational jury to find that she knowingly and…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1317
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her ex-husband’s estate alleging that his life insurance proceeds rightly belong to her. The court held that the district court correctly determined that the Interspousal Agreement and the…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1327
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of child pornography that FBI agents found on his phone. The court held that the warrant supported probable cause and the…
Date: April 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1860
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the sheriff and sheriff's deputies, alleging that they violated his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and his right to due process. The Eighth Circuit…
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 17-2222
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court for further consideration in light of Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of the State's motion to dismiss for failure to…
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3201
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied the petition for review of the BIA's order dismissing petitioner's appeal from the IJ's decision denying her asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture…
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3734
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated defendant's 336 month sentence for producing child pornography. The court held that the district court failed to give defendant a full credit for the time served on related state charges. The…
Date: April 1, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1026
Justia Opinion Summary: Within two months after plaintiff filed suit against Holiday seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Holiday remedied the violations. Three months…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3085
Justia Opinion Summary: After defendant pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud, he claimed that the district court should have dismissed the indictment against him after alleged government misconduct came to light. Defendant was a college…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3613
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of prison officials in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action brought by plaintiff, alleging violation of his due process rights in connection with…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1151
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for transportation and receipt of child pornography. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing defendant's request for a court…
Date: March 31, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1507
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss evidence uncovered when police searched the home he shared with his parents. Defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of production…
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Number: 17-3079
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former detainee at the detention center, filed suit against the sheriff and nurse, alleging that defendants delayed his access to adequate medical treatment for a serious condition while he was detained.…
Date: March 30, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3150
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. The court held that the Leon good-faith exception to the…
Date: March 27, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2595, 18-3671
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied petitions for review challenging the BIA's interpretation of the Supreme Court's decision in Esquivel–Quintana v. Sessions, 137 S. Ct. 1562 (2017). Petitioner asked the BIA to reopen his…
Date: March 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3535
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against UND Law under Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), alleging that UND Law discriminated against him because of his mental illness when it rejected his admission…
Date: March 27, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3574
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Mercy Health, alleging that Mercy's plan management disregards requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Mercy asserted that it does not have to comply with ERISA's…
Date: March 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6035
Justia Opinion Summary: The bankruptcy appellate panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's dismissal of appellants' adversary proceeding against appellees, individually and in their capacity as assignees of Beresford. The panel held that the…
Date: March 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1002
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress images and videos retrieved from his cell phone. The court held that the district court correctly determined that investigators…
Date: March 25, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2559
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's determination that Minn. Stat. Sec. 216B.246, subdiv. 2, which grants incumbent electric transmission owners the right of first refusal (ROFR) to construct, own and…
Date: March 25, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1098
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's order granting Jet Midwest and PMC's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent Appellant Ohadi and Woolley from foreclosing on the assets of JMG until the parties…
Date: March 24, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3616
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a putative class action against former trustees of the Lifetouch Plan, the Board, and Lifetouch, alleging claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The Eighth Circuit affirmed the…
Date: March 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1514
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's order certifying a class under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2) and (b)(3), holding that the district court abused is discretion in finding that plaintiffs met…
Date: March 23, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3487
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's dismissal of petitioner's appeal of the IJ's denial of cancellation of removal relief and denial of petitioner's motion to remand. The court held that the BIA…
Date: March 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-1191
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence seized at his residence, as well as statements he made to officers at his residence and at the police station. The court…
Date: March 23, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-6027, 19-6037
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's orders dismissing debtors' individual chapter 13 cases with a bar to re-filing for 180 days. The panel held that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its…
Date: March 20, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-2784, 18-2890
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), alleging that Blue Cross abused its discretion by partially denying their claim for air-ambulance benefits under an employee health…
Date: March 20, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3357
Justia Opinion Summary: Green Plains, owner and operator of an ethanol production facility, filed suit against PEI for negligence and products liability, alleging defective design and failure to adequately instruct and warn users. The district…
Date: March 19, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6013
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's decision applying the contemporaneous exchange for new value preference defense under Bankruptcy Code 547(c)(1) to except payments by debtor to Wells Fargo…
Date: March 19, 2020
Docket Number: 19-6025
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversed the bankruptcy court's order denying BOM's motion under 11 U.S.C. 506(b) for allowance of postpetition default interest. The panel held that the bankruptcy court erred in…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2930
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the county in a dispute regarding Argonaut's duty to defend the county against a civil rights lawsuit. Under Missouri law,…
Date: March 17, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3500
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's order granting SnugglyCat's motion to voluntarily dismiss this Lanham Act action without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(2). The court rejected…
Date: March 16, 2020
Docket Number: 18-1531
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied petitions for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for cancellation of removal (No. 18-1531) and denial of his motion to reopen and reconsider (No. 18-3164). The court…
Date: March 13, 2020
Docket Number: 18-3106
Justia Opinion Summary: Morgan Stanley filed suit under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) to confirm an arbitration award against defendant. After defendant did not respond, the district court entered judgment in favor of Morgan Stanley. Then…
Date: March 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-2645
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a putative class action alleging that defendants deceived plaintiffs into believing their products were approved by the FDA. After the district court remanded the case back to state court, the Eighth…
Date: March 12, 2020
Docket Number: 18-2826
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's final order of removal following her appeal of the IJ's removal order denying her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. The court held that…
Date: March 12, 2020
Docket Numbers: 18-3467, 18-3468
Justia Opinion Summary: Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 191.227.1 permits health care providers to charge patients who request their medical records a "search" fee when there are no responsive medical records to be found. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the…
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